General Surgery residents Justin Doble, Julie Campbell, Katelin Mirkin, Melissa Linskey, Susie Sun, Cassie Sontag and Audrey Stokes are seen at the 2017 Resident Research Day event. The seven residents are pictured standing from left to right, wearing their ID badges around their necks and dress clothing, in a room filled with posters for presentations.

For Current Residents and Fellows

ACGME Core Competencies Lecture Series

ACGME Core Competencies is a series of educational presentations recorded at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and available for viewing online.

The series is designed for resident and attending physicians of Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. Participation should take approximately 1 hour per presentation. Many of the sessions include topics in patient safety/risk management as required by the Pennsylvania State Board of Medicine. These will be marked by the asterisk.

Lecture Dates and Topics

Resident Council

Resident Council will be held at noon on the following dates:

Nov. 1, 2017 (Lecture Room A)

CGME Institutional Requirement II.C.

The Sponsoring Institution must ensure availability of an organization, council, town hall, or other platform that allows residents/fellows from across the Sponsoring Institution’s ACGME-accredited programs to communicate and exchange information with each other relevant to their ACGME-accredited programs and their learning and working environment. Any resident/fellow from one of the Sponsoring Institution’s ACGME-accredited programs must have the opportunity to raise concern to the forum. Residents/fellows must have the options, at least in part, to conduct their forum without the DIO, faculty members, or other administrators present.

Fatigue and Strategic Napping Options

Non-assigned call rooms are located in the BMR building, Room 1827, and the sixth floor of the main hospital, room H6311. Please contact the Office of Graduate Medical Education at 717-531-5168 for the access code.

If a resident is unable to safely drive home due to sleep deprivation, the Office of Graduate Medical Education will reimburse residents for Uber, Lyft, etc. with a valid receipt.

ACGME Common Program Requirements on Fatigue Management

The program must:

educate all faculty members and residents to recognize the signs of fatigue and sleep deprivation

educate all faculty members and residents in alertness management and fatigue mitigation processes

encourage residents to use fatigue mitigation processes to manage the potential negative effects of fatigue on patient care and learning, such as naps or backup call schedules

Each program must have a process to ensure continuity of patient care in the event that a resident may be unable to perform his/her patient care duties.

The sponsoring institution must provide adequate sleep facilities and/or safe transportation options for residents who may be too fatigued to safely return home.

Resident/Fellow Research Day

The annual Resident/Fellow Research Day is held each spring at the University Conference Center on the Penn State Health Milton S. Medical Center campus in Hershey, PA.

The intent of the event is to provide an opportunity for residents and fellows to showcase their research accomplishments to their peers in other clinical departments, as well as their colleagues in the basic sciences.

2017 event

Oral presentations were scheduled from 11:15 a.m. to noon, with the top three abstract submission authors presenting their research and time for a short question-and-answer period from the audience. Moderator was Kent Vrana, PhD, Professor and Chair, Pharmacology.

Poster presentations took place noon to 2 p.m.

Family and Community Medicine (State College, PA) resident Shwetha Gurram, MD, presents a poster at Resident Research Day 2017.

Presentations

Abstracts submitted to Resident/Fellow Research Day included the following.

General Surgery resident Justin Doble, MD, presents a poster at Resident Research Day 2017.

ACGME Core Competencies

Patient Care: Resident must provide care that is compassionate, appropriate, and effective the the treatment of health problems and the promotion of health.

Medical Knowledge: Residents must demonstrate knowledge about established and evolving biomedical, clinical, and cognate (e.g. epidemiological and social-behavioral) sciences and the application of this knowledge to patient care.

Practice-based Learning and Improvement: Residents must be able to investigate and evaluate their patient care practices, appraise and assimilate scientific evidence, and improve their patient care practices.

Interpersonal and Communication Skills: Learn to provide effective information exchange and teaming with patients, their families, and professional associates.

Professionalism: Residents must demonstrate a commitment to carrying out professional responsibilities, adherence to ethical principles, and sensitivity to a diverse patient population.

Systems-based Practice: Residents must demonstrate an awareness of and responsiveness to the larger context and system of health care and the ability to effectively call on system resources to provide care that is of optimal value.

Penn State College of Medicine is an equal-opportunity employer and accepts all qualified applications regardless of their gender, ethnic origin or religious background.